SAHA International
Company Profile
We offer specialist advice based on international experience but cognisant of local conditions to ensure a pragmatic solution
Who we are and what we offer
SAHA (Saha International) is a leading specialist advisory practice with seven offices located in Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa. The practice was first established in 2001 and has now grown to employ more than 100 professional staff. Our website www.sahainternational.com provides a detailed overview of the firm: including its services offerings; its people; contact details; etc.
The remainder of this document provides an overview of material specifically relevant to our clients and potential clients within the Southern African region.
SAHA advisory services are focused on several major sectors:
Who we are and what we offer
SAHA (Saha International) is a leading specialist advisory practice with seven offices located in Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa. The practice was first established in 2001 and has now grown to employ more than 100 professional staff. Our website www.sahainternational.com provides a detailed overview of the firm: including its services offerings; its people; contact details; etc.
The remainder of this document provides an overview of material specifically relevant to our clients and potential clients within the Southern African region.
SAHA advisory services are focused on several major sectors:
• Transport
• Electronic Transactions
• Energy (Electricity and Gas)
• Water and Wastewater
• Corporate Finance
The service offerings within these major sectors are extensive, including: market and institutional reform; market design; regulatory advice; strategic and business planning; service delivery; corporate finance; etc.
The service offerings within these major sectors are extensive, including: market and institutional reform; market design; regulatory advice; strategic and business planning; service delivery; corporate finance; etc.
These offerings are detailed further in separate sections below.
Our consultants have extensive experience gained in the private sector, government, and regulatory agencies and from working in many jurisdictions. This experience, developed in both the industry andgovernment environment, means we understand the issues facing private and public organisations, as well as those of the regulators and agencies in these sectors. Such experience provides us an understanding of your perspective.
As we operate as one firm, we are able to nominate the best consultants from our entire team suited to the specific project. We are able to blend the lessons of international experience with a strong understanding of the local conditions, to ensure we offer our clients unique practical solutions.
Our consultants have extensive experience gained in the private sector, government, and regulatory agencies and from working in many jurisdictions. This experience, developed in both the industry andgovernment environment, means we understand the issues facing private and public organisations, as well as those of the regulators and agencies in these sectors. Such experience provides us an understanding of your perspective.
As we operate as one firm, we are able to nominate the best consultants from our entire team suited to the specific project. We are able to blend the lessons of international experience with a strong understanding of the local conditions, to ensure we offer our clients unique practical solutions.
Ownership and Governance
SAHA is owned through a partnership and each country has a legal company operating as the agent of the partnership. In terms of governance the partnership then effectively operates as a governing board, whilst the firm is managed and operated as though one company with a Chief Executive and Sector Leaders forming the core management team. Partners are also employed within the firm and are deeply involved in delivering advisory services to our clients. Although separate financial information is typically required within the various jurisdictions we operate, for tax and company reporting purposes, our philosophy is to operate the firm as a cohesive group to ensure the best resources across the firm are applied to any client project.
Specifically in South Africa a separate company entity was founded in 2006 for the region with the establishment of offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. However, the firm has been successfully operating within the region since the firm was established in 2001. Some of our first projects, and one of our longest standing clients, is based in the Southern African region.
Strength in depth
While our firm was founded as recently as 2001, our senior advisory team has been working together in providing similar services to our clients for close to two decades. This is derived from many of our partners and directors previously having had involvement and experience in a number of multinational management consultancy firms worldwide. Many of our team are drawn from the professional services sector, from large corporates, and from government. We are able to rely on these decades of specialised experience to provide the right solutions - enriching our expanding team located in SAHA offices across the world.
Fresh approach
We work closely with clients to achieve their specific objectives by applying a combination of understanding the theory, applying proven method, and developing unique and innovative approaches to ensure a successful outcome. SAHA is a relatively young organisation, formed by like-minded professionals, who seek to create and offer unique perspectives that set us apart from the approach taken by established larger advisory firms. We offer a powerful combination of industry, government and consulting experience.
Our attributes include being:
• More flexible
• More responsive
• More proactive
• More forthcoming
• More senior staff involvement throughout projects
• More approachable
• Less formal
• Less ‘bureaucratic’
Differentiators:
Differentiators:
• More senior time
• Industry sector expertise
• Knowledge transfer
• Risk management
Quality Accreditation
Quality Accreditation
SAHA has implemented a companywide Quality Management System (QMS) which meets the requirements of the International Standard ISO 9001:2000. The Quality Management System ensures all our processes from identifying an advisory opportunity to delivering advice to our clients, including our human resource processes, our time recording, accounting systems etc. are followed at the level of the international standard.
